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POPSFacebook asked to pull Scrabulous game Hrm, this just seems like a stupid way to go about it. Yes, it is a gross infringement of thier rights, however, it is one of the most popular games/apps on Facebook. I know lots of people who play it. My girlfriend decided to add scrabble to her xmas wishlist after playing it on facebook and being reminded of haw good a game it is. She got the deluxe version of the game under the tree :) As I see it, the idiots are missing out. They could make a deal witht he writers gaining the majority (if not all/nearly all) of any profits made from teh game, and use it to link to thier product, re brand it as official and make MONEY through internet sales of the real thing. Morons. Everybody is shoot first, shoot again.. shoot a little more & when everyone is dead, ask a question or two.. Reminds me of the Alberta Preimier - Domain name issue...
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POPSPorn sting nets nine Canadians I can't fucking belive this. You'd think that with all the stories going around the news of investigations into child pornography, people being arrested, and the fact that people should realize by now that THEY ARE NOT ANONYMOUS on the net, that these creeps would stop??? Ugh... and Canadians, again... I feel so ashamed of my country... Wtf... The Canadian Government & Cybertip.ca have been talking for a long time about setting up a "national firewall" that blocks sites outside canada that contain child porn. This is one of the few cases where I actually support censorship. I wish they'd just fucking complete it... maybe it would stop some people...
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POPSThe Music Industry’s Last Stand Will Be A Music Tax The article (please read it all before you comment), basically states the idea of putting a $5-10 tax on all ISP Monthly bills. This tax would then allow you to download all the music, etc you want, DRM free without the fear of reprisals from the industry. The writer of the article seems to think this is a bad idea, however, IMO its a great idea. I know that not everyone downloads content illegally, but at least here in Canada, we all pay taxes for things we don't use or rarely use. many Canadians never get really sick or visit doctors, etc, yet they still pay taxes. Many Canadians work all their lives and never worry about being un employed, but we still pay "Employment Insurance" taxes. So maybe it would work here in Canada, and not in the US? Well, we will be better for it. Besides, what's $5 on a $80 cable & internet bill? Barely noticeable. (continued...)
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POPSCES: FyreTV Brings the Porn for Ten Bucks a Month This isn't marked mature because it contains nothing (graphically) "mature"... This is an interesting concept. Granted, porn on the net is "free" (youporn, torrents, google image search, etc), but the ability to access thier entire library using keyword/concept searching is rather unique. And in DVD quality too ;)
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POPSPron company tries to datamine facebook, gets sued Datamining sites like this is nothing new. The new thig is basically that many people (me included) put much of thier life ont ehse sites. We assume the provider is doing everything it can to protect our privacy (in Facebook's case, this seems to be a problem that keeps rearing its ugly head). The info I have on Facebook I'm not worried about. I'm not really paranoid. I'm sure with teh right datamining & analysis tools once could beuild a rather impressive psych profile of me. So what? If I was in the states or Britian, I might be more worried.
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POPSProject takes aim at Internet child porn Personally, i think this is a great idea.. if they can extend it to lockout known purveyors of child porn on P2P networks as well, that would be wonderful. (ps: i added "censorship" as a tag, as some people are calling this a form of censorship..I think it solves more than it harms...)
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POPS"Angry dad hurt her, says teen Internet flasher" - Moral: Don't buy your kids Webcams! OMFG... Ok, the guy had no right to assault his daughter no matter what she did. He should NOT have bought his daughter a webcam.. I don't know how many parents I've told this to... if you MUST, then put it in a common room, not their bedroom or a room with a door! Also, the father apparently is under investigation for previous incidents of assault involving his daughter. PS: I think technically, under Canadian law, both the girl, her father's girlfriend (owner of the computer), and the boy in PEI could be charged with possession, distribution & production of child pornography. Scary, huh? (the woman because it is her computer) PPS: the father sounds like a real winner.. read the rest of the article...
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POPSTaking preschoolers on predator patrol This is a great idea, I just hope it works. They really need to find a way to protect preteens & early teens though, they are really the most at risk. They often have "freedoms" that younger kids do not such as traveling to friends homes down the street, to & from school, some are even left home alone as early at 11 years old... They also are often left alone at computers, etc. Not sure how you educate kids at that age...
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POPSDigital Mudslinging Amusing, not because a republican was the target, but because of how it was played out.. people really, REALLY have to think these days, any cellphone, digital camera, etc can be a video camera.. politicians have to watch what they say EVERYWHERE. Of course imo, if he really said a racial slur, he deserves to lose.. republican or democrat!.
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POPSThe next terrorist threat: 14 year old girls! OMG.. yeah, a 14 year old girl is a serious threat.. at that, an honor's student.. a little leg work would have shown they needed not bother harassing her... a simple email or phone call woul dhave sufficed. Leave it to the US to crack down on a little girl's mistake. pathetic.
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POPSTeens pirate MP3s because they have littel to no options to buy legitimately.. Interesting.. I think the biggest blocker to legitimately buying online music is the credit card, as well as the availability of stores and the restrictions they place on what you can do with the music you buy. I mean, for one thing, if you bought a CD< you could rip it to your MP3 player, computer, friend's computer, etc, and nothing will stop you (unless the CD has some copy protection, but Sony learned the hard way that that is a BAD idea). Kids don't have credit cards, and though stores like napster, rhapsody, etc are there and allow subscriptions to download almost any of their almost 1 million tracks to your mp3 player, you still need a valid credit card to buy it.
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POPSSome VoIP services surpass traditional phones Basically, cable voip (in most cases) is better than traditional lndline. Now if only Eastlink (my local cable/internet/phone provider offered VOIP as a service...) Ofcourse anyone who has used googletalk as a voice client knows in many cases it is far superior than phone/voip/etc.. too bad i can't use my phone with google-talk.. mabe my g/f could figure it out then :| (GTalk is also free to use.. provide dyou have an internet connection).
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